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ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 5

June 10, 2020 Jun 10, 2020 06/10/20

.NET 5 Preview 5 is now available and is ready for evaluation! .NET 5 will be a current release. Get started To get started with ASP.NET Core in .NET 5.0 Preview5 install the .NET 5.0 SDK. If you're on Windows using Visual Studio, we recommend installing Visual Studio 2019 16.6. If you're on macOS, we recommend installing the latest ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5

June 10, 2020 Jun 10, 2020 06/10/20

Jeremy Likness

Announcing the release of Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5 featuring database collations, flowing arguments to IDesignTimeDbContextFactory, no tracking queries with identity resolution, stored (persisted) columns and SQLite computed columns.

Announcing .NET 5.0 Preview 5

June 10, 2020 Jun 10, 2020 06/10/20

Rich Lander [MSFT]

Today, we're releasing .NET 5.0 Preview 5. It contains a small set of new features and performance improvements. The .NET 5.0 Preview 4 post covers what we are planning to deliver with .NET 5.0. Most of the features are now in the product, but many are not yet in their final state. We expect that the release will be very close to feature-...

.NET Core June 2020 Updates – 2.1.19 and 3.1.5

June 9, 2020 Jun 9, 2020 06/9/20

Rahul Bhandari (MSFT)

Today, we are releasing the .NET Core June 2020 Update. These updates contain security and reliability fixes. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. Security CVE-2020-1108: .NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability To comprehensively address CVE-2020-1108, Microsoft has released updates for .NET Core 2.1 ...

Help us improve WPF and UWP XAML designer

May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020 05/28/20

Olia Gavrysh

We would like to make your experience developing WPF and UWP applications in Visual Studio better! Currently we are investigating ways of improving the XAML Designer and making you more productive while developing UI for your apps. You can already check out our preview version of the new feature called Suggested Actions that enables easy ...

Continuous integration workflow template for .NET Core desktop apps with GitHub Actions

May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020 05/28/20

Edward Skrod

Learn how to use a starter workflow in GitHub to help you quickly set up and showcase DevOps for your .NET Core desktop applications using GitHub Actions.

Announcing Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings May update

May 26, 2020 May 26, 2020 05/26/20

Eilon Lipton

Update of Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings with CSS fixes, improved docs, and easier syntax!

Introducing YARP Preview 1

May 21, 2020 May 21, 2020 05/21/20

Sam Spencer

YARP is an extensible open source reverse proxy using .NET. The Preview 1 library is now available on nuget.

Introducing Project Tye

May 21, 2020 May 21, 2020 05/21/20

Amiee Lo

Project Tye Project Tye is an experimental developer tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier. When building an app made up of multiple projects, you often want to run more than one at a time, such as a website that communicates with a backend API or several services all ...